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: From 1975-82, Russia had six probes land on the surface of Venus, surviving temperatures of 855 °F and successfully taking photos.

Saturn has a moon called Mimas and it has a crater in it that makes it look like the Death Star.

Sunsets happen because of the Earth atmosphere.

Uranus is the coldest planet in our solar system, even though Neptune is farther from the sun.

The sun light needs to pass more and more through the atmosphere.

Jupiter is shrinking at the rate of about 2 cm each year because the planet radiates more heat than it receives from the Sun.

Venus spins on its axis so slowly (4 mph) that the average human could easily outwalk it.

It might rain liquid neon on Jupiter.

Our moon is bigger than Pluto and some scientists think it's more of a planet in a double planet Earth-moon system.

Other planets such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have auroras with different colors.

Some scientists believe that around 4 billion years ago Neptune and Uranus may have switched their places in the solar system.

There is a giant smiley-face shaped crater on Mars.

Scientists have estimated that there are nearly 2 billion earth-like planets in the Milky Way alone.

Triton, Neptune is largest moon, has geysers that shoot ice 5 miles high and may be geologically active.

63 Earths can fit inside Uranus